Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-11-17
'sPhs PooIHath Said In HIS Heart
There Is No God"

The men who died on the gallows
in Chicago, November IL, refused
spiritual consolation from the first
| moment to the last. Not one of
them was a believer in God, or re-
ligion, or moral accountability, or
the Sabbath and its ministratlons, or
future life, or conscience. They
did not believe that the martial re-
lation had any divine sanctity, or
any special sanctity outside of the
affections. They were intidels. They
believed in nothing. They held
nothing sacred. They had no faith
and no hope except in the disordered
pride of unbelief and in a compre-
hensive disregard of both human
and divine law, of social order, and
of all that YIELDS civilized society
together and renders its associations
endearing aud delightful.
Jesus Christ represented on the
earth every interest, every thought,
every hope, every tie of labor and
of the poor. His teachings belong
to every relation that men bear to
each other. His gospel was given
to the poor. His charity was as
universal as humanity. He created
in the hearts and thoughts of man
kind, so far as His system is beliey-
ed and practiced, heaven upon
earth. There is no peace, no fru-
itlon of hope, no possible condition
under which mankind may reach its
highest capabilities aud aspirations,
that is not exemplified in His pre-
cepts. He said: "Love thy neigh
Dor as thyself;" He said: "Feed my
lambs;" He said: "Blessed are the
merclful," and BLESSED are the
peacemakers." He bore the cross
for all that was evil and sinful. If
there is in all human thought, in ali
the world of sympathy and love, a
kindly and gracious emotion, it is
the inspiration drawn from Christ
and His religion. Yet the Anarch-
lists despise His name, reject His
divine mission, revile His undying
truths and deny that He was God
revealed in the flesh Jesus Christ
said also: 'Render unto Caesar the
things that are C@sar's," and He
held that obedience to human laws
was preparation and discipline for
obedience to divine laws, and was
also It's matured and beueticent fruit.
For this reason, probably, anarchy
has espoused infdehty. Lawless-
ness is anarchy. All that hates and
desplses the law is anarchy. An
archy is revolt against all law, hu-
man and divine. Anarchy begins
in iufdelity. 1t begins in denial
aud defiance of God. 1t ends in
such tragedies as were enacted at
the haymarket in Chicago, May 4,
1885, and i'll the jail of the same
city, November | /, 1887. Irreligion,
denial of Christianity, disbelief in
Bible truth aud are the pernlcious
seed from which this pernicious
fruit has proceeded.
Every teacher of infidelity, of a
Chnstless civilization and culture,
of contempt for religion and It's
divine truths, of disbelief in a
Christian gospel, is an Anarchist in
his heart, and his teachings, lead TO
such scenes as those of the Reign
of Terror in France and of the dy-
Mantle tragedy in Chicago. From
Voltaire down to Bob Ingersoll,
every public teacher who has taught
disbelief in God, in the Bible, in a
future life aud in human accounta-
bility, is responsible for the blood
that has been shed in war against
social law aud in atonenent for
crimes against society and its laws.
There are men whose daily lives
are possibly more impure than those
of the anarchist teachers, who vio-
late moral law, the laws of home,
the laws of business and the laws
of proprlety. But they are not, like
the Anarchists, the enemies of Sc
ciety. In their best thoughts and
impulses they are conseryators of
society. They are opposed to law
lessnesS and ruin. The Anarchist,
however pure his private life, is an
enemy of order. He believes in
destruction and ruin. lie would
oyerturn and demolish every exist
ing law, every social regulation,
every form of faith and every meth
cd of civilized mankind. If socie.
ty can not be overturned by peace
full methods he believes that force
full and bloody methods should be
adopted. For this reason an i'm
moral and lawless man, whose prac-
tees, habits and life are bad-who
may even be a criminal as regards
property rights or deeds of violence
if he has a theoretical belief in
Gods a good man and a valuable
member of society rs compared with
the iuhdel who, however pure MS